Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the garden

Dinghy load test and garden storm hardening

Kevin is at the dock running the dinghy engine under load; Jenny is in the garden securing plants and removing moldy seed packets.

Kevin returns to the cottage with the Yanmar starter assembly, the pull cord frayed and needing attention. Jenny remains in the garden, meticulously checking the heirloom seed trays for signs of mold as the afternoon heat begins to dip.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You throttle the Yanmar up to three-quarters, the dinghy surging against its lines. The engine holds steady — no miss, no smoke, the repaired housing bolt firm. You ease back to idle, kill the switch, and pull the starter cord again: it catches, but the frayed strand snaps cleanly. The engine restarts on the next pull, but the cord is now too short to grip well.

🔧 Kevin15:37

Kevin — kill the engine, unship the starter assembly, and walk back to the cottage with it to re-knot or replace the cord

💭 peek at the thought

Cord's gone. One more hard pull and I'll be rowing back. Good thing the engine runs — that was the test. Cord's a small thing, but small things strand you.

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🔧 Kevin15:40

Kevin — walk up to the garden with the starter assembly, reattach it to the Yanmar, then help Jenny finish securing the shade cloth and seedling trays

💭 peek at the thought

Starter cord re-knotted with a figure-eight and a toggle from a scrap of the old rope — ugly but it'll turn the engine over. The real test was the housing under load. That held. Now the barometer's still falling and the garden needs the last of the tie-downs before the wind shifts.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the garden

The tarp is lashed down now, corners anchored to the garden wall and driftwood stakes. You've burned the moldy basil packets — the smoke acrid in the wind. The sea beet leaves are spread on a clean tarp in the lee of the cottage, weighed with stones. The limpets for dinner sit in a pot of fresh water on the porch, desalting.

🌿 Jenny15:38

Stay down, you.

Walk back inside the cottage to check the water tank level.

💭 peek at the thought

The wind is turning south; if the boat doesn't come in two days, we're eating way but salt.

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🌿 Jenny15:42

Jenny — look at the seed tin on the shelf.

💭 peek at the thought

382 litres. Enough for now, if the sky doesn't open up.

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